Degar

King of the Congo (1952)

Actors: Earl Turner (editor), Buster Crabbe (actor), Sam Katzman (producer), Arthur Hoerl (writer), George H. Plympton (writer), Spencer Gordon Bennet (director), Buster Crabbe (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Jack Ingram (actor), Alex Montoya (actor), Neyle Morrow (actor), Leonard Penn (actor), Lee Roberts (actor), Nick Stuart (actor),

Plot: Based on the comic book character "Thun'Da, King of the Congo," a Tarzan imitator, whose only comic of any value is the first one rendered entirely by cult artist Frank Frazetta, this was Columbia's 48th serial and the seventh and last serial starring Buster Crabbe. Crabbe plays U.S.A.F. Captain Roger Drum who shoots down an unidentified plane whose pilot was bound for Africa to deliver a message to a subversive group. Drum takes his place, makes the flight and crashes in the jungle. The rock people, led by Princess Pha, rescue him and take him to their temple. The subversives, led by Boris, appear and Drum rings a temple gong in alarm, and its sound crumbles the walls, burying him in debris at the end of Chapter One, "Mission of Menace." Chapter Two, "Red Shadows in the Jungle" finds Drum being proclaimed Thunda, King of the Congo, by the natives but is still mistrusted by Princess Phi and her assistant Nahee, still miffed that he rang the wrong gong. This goes on for 15 chapters before Thundra reunites the Rock and Cave People and clears the jungle of all the villains with Russian names.

Keywords: arms-tied-overhead, bare-chested-male-bondage, hung-by-one's-feet, jungle, serial, torture
Genres: Action,
Taglines: Darkest Africa's most daring hero!

Night of Terror (1933)

Actors: Arthur Hilton (editor), Pat Harmon (actor), Otto Hoffman (actor), Bela Lugosi (actor), Tully Marshall (actor), Edwin Maxwell (actor), Eric Mayne (actor), Matt McHugh (actor), George Meeker (actor), Dave O'Brien (actor), Richard Powell (actor), Oscar Smith (actor), Bryant Washburn (actor), Sally Blane (actress), Wallace Ford (actor),

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,

Quotes:

Martin the Chauffeur: I was right! When I said they was... undertakers!::Degar: Remember... you have seen... NOTHING!

Degar: I heard you, walking up and down, master. Thought you might want something.::Richard Rinehart: No, I don't want anything.::Degar: Perhaps you'd like the evening paper?::Richard Rinehart: No, there's nothing in the papers.::Degar: Nothing but MURDER!

Mary Rinehart: [UPSET] Oh! Call a doctor. Call a doctor!::Degar: It is too late!

Sika: Why should the master have left his brother anything? He never cared for him; never came to see him while he was alive.::Degar: Perhaps he will be the first of the heirs to die.::Sika: According to the master's will, the rest of us will inherit his share.